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Mental Health Religion, Mental Health, and the Latter-day Saints message from the deans’ office

The Dual Mission of Religious Education

n February of 2016, Elder M. Russell Ballard of the IQuorum of the Twelve Apostles provided direction to a worldwide audience of religious educators and described several of the challenges we are facing in the twenty-first century. Elder Ballard described one of these challenges as follows: “Gone are the days when a student asked an honest question and a teacher responded, ‘Don’t worry about it!’ Gone are the days when a student raised a sincere concern and a teacher bore his or her testimony as a response intended to avoid the issue. Gone are the days when students were protected from people who attacked the Church.”1 For many years, our students were reared “as calves of the stall” (1 Nephi 22:24); they were sheltered from the criticisms of the Church and the restored gospel. Today, however, electronic media has made nearly every conceiv- able objection instantly available. This significant change underscores the need for teachers to respond to Elder Ballard’s direction to provide “the best LDS scholarship available”2 while at the same time teach in such a manner that our students can “warm [their] hands by the fire of [our] faith.”3 I am grateful to be associated with the men and women of Religious Education who are striving to follow the Savior’s command to both “instruct and edify” (D&C 43:8) those we teach as a means of blessing students both intellectually and spiritually. Thanks to everyone who supports Religious Education and the Religious Studies Center in our unique mission.

Daniel K Judd Associate Dean, Religious Education

Notes 1. M. Russell Ballard, “The Opportunities and Responsibilities of CES Teachers in the 21st Century” (address to CES religious educators, 26 February 2016, Salt Lake Tabernacle), 2. https:// www.lds.org/broadcasts/article/evening-with-a-general-authority/2016/02/ the-opportunities-and-responsibilities-of-ces-teachers-in-the-21st-century?lang=eng&_r=1. 2. Ballard, “Opportunities and Responsibilities,” 4. 3. William E. Berrett, as cited in Boyd K. Packer, That All May Be Edified (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1982), 146.

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BYU Religious Education Review A Publication of the Religious Studies Center

WEB: rsc.byu.edu/review RESEARCH UPDATE FEATURE OUTREACH A New Age of Book of Mormon Study The Relationship between Religion, Key Priorities and Initiatives Related by Thomas A. Wayment Mental Health, and the Latter-day Saints to Our Mission by Daniel K Judd by Brent L. Top and R. Devan Jensen

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Foreword ...... 2 Historian’s Corner ...... 8 Crossroads and Challenges The Journey West by Thomas A. Wayment by Richard E. Bennett and Thomas A. Wayment

Calendar of Events ...... 3 Notes on Faculty and Staff...... 26

Faculty & Staff Highlights ...... 4 New RSC Publications...... 34

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WINTER 2018 1 foreword

Crossroads and Challenges

The Review magazine serves the purpose of connecting inter- ested readers with the research, publications, and teaching events of Religious Education generally. In putting together each issue of the magazine, I have the opportunity to draw attention to and highlight the great research and teaching that is currently taking place. This process allows me to hear about the many fascinating projects that are ongoing, some of which we have featured in the pages of the Review. It has been my privilege to engage with differ- ent scholars and to publicize their research. Over the past five years, I have become aware of the fact that one of the primary challenges of academia is the difficulty scholars face to publicize their work and to find funding to support new research. Thomas A. Wayment. Photo by Brent R. Nordgren. In this issue, Dean Brent L. Top invites contributions to fund-raising, even subversive. General information opinions, public perceptions, and which is vital to help the work of is easy to obtain, but balanced and misinformation that require time Religious Education to move forward. high-quality information is more diffi- and energy to discuss. In the Review, Within the current environment cult to obtain. Universities exist, in and in Religious Education, we strive of immediate commentary on almost part, to promote discussions of infor- to present balanced approaches to every action, statement, or event, we mation that balances both supporting history, practice, and belief. are variously bombarded by informa- and contradictory evidences. This I have felt that for some time tion that is either truthful, carefully can be difficult to achieve in religion the Church has reached a crossroads articulated, reactionary, deceptive, or because there are traditions, popular

2 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW calendar of events Open to the campus community and the general public of sorts regarding its history and MARCH 2018 popular challenges to that history. BYU CHURCH HISTORY SYMPOSIUM One response has been to repeat older Thursday and Friday, 1–2 March 2018 answers to new challenges, but I’m The 2018 Church History Symposium will be held Thursday at the BYU Conference Center in Provo and Friday at the LDS Conference Center in Salt afraid that our generation has been Lake City. The theme of the conference is “Financing Faith: The Intersection tasked with rethinking the ways in of Business and Religion.” The conference will explore ways financial records which we respond, with bringing in illuminate the history of the Church and its members. How can such records different vantage points, and with broaden our understanding of women in the Church? How did economics play considering old evidence in new out in the globalization of Mormonism, particularly in the funding of missions and temples? For more information, visit https://churchhistory.ce.byu.edu/. ways. At the RSC we are striving to do this. We strive to bring the passion of our researchers to bear on the BYU EASTER CONFERENCE conversations for which our readers Friday, 23 March 2018 are hungry and thirsty. We value your This Easter Conference will be held in the Joseph Smith Building (JSB) audi- continued support of our efforts, and torium beginning at 7:00 p.m. The keynote speaker will be Susan W. Tanner, former Young Women General President. The other two speakers are Thomas A. we will continue to strive towards Wayment, publications director of the Religious Studies Center, and Anthony promoting the best that Religious Sweat, assistant professor of Church history and doctrine. Each speaker will Education has to offer. talk about various aspects of the Savior, his life, his mission, the Atonement, and his influence on our lives today. Plan to bring a friend or loved one and come early. For more information, visit http://rsc.byu.edu/easterconference.

Thomas A. Wayment Publications Director Religious Studies Center These events are free of charge and registration is not required. Some event details are subject to change. For more details, please visit us online at rsc.byu.edu/conferences or contact Brent Nordgren at 801-422-3293.

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Faculty Highlight: Roger G. Christensen ROGER G. CHRISTENSEN ([email protected]) IS AN INSTRUCTOR IN CHURCH HISTORY AND DOCTRINE AT BYU.

Roger G. Christensen was born in Salt Lake City and raised in Concord, California. He earned a bachelor of science degree in accounting at BYU and a PhD in educational leadership at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Dr. Christensen worked for several years as the secretary to the Church Board of Education and the Boards of Trustees of BYU, BYU–Hawaii, BYU–Idaho, and LDS Business College. He also served as the budget officer for the Church. After serving as mission president of the Ecuador Quito Mission, he became part of BYU Religious Education’s faculty in 2017. He enjoys music, athlet- ics, and reading (particularly Church history and historical biographies). He married Christine Cecilia Baker, from Oakley, Idaho, and they are the parents of eleven children. Roger and Christine currently live in Bluffdale, Utah.

Faculty Highlight: Jason R. Combs JASON R. COMBS ([email protected]) IS A VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AT BYU.

Dr. Jason R. Combs joined the BYU faculty in 2016 after working as a lecturer in North Carolina—at High Point University, Guilford College, and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University. He holds master’s degrees in biblical studies from Yale Divinity School and in Classics from Columbia University. He earned his PhD in religious studies with an emphasis on the history of early Christianity from UNC at Chapel Hill, where he studied under Professor Bart Ehrman. At UNC, his dissertation, “Epiphanies in Second- and Third-Century Christian Literature: Discourse, Identity, and Divine Manifestations,” was awarded the coveted Royster Fellowship, and he received two distinguished awards for his teaching. Combs has published academic articles in the journals Early Christianity, the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, and Journal of Biblical Literature. Last fall, his first article for a popular LDS audience was published in the collection of essays from the 46th Annual Sperry Symposium, Prophets and Prophecies of the Old Testament.

4 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW Faculty Spotlight: Joseph M. Spencer JOSEPH M. SPENCER ([email protected]) IS A VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AT BYU.

Joseph M. Spencer has degrees from Brigham Young University, San Jose State University, and the University of New Mexico, completing his PhD in 2015 in philosophy. He is the author of three books (An Other Testament, For Zion, and, most recently, The Vision of All: Twenty-five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record), as well as of dozens of articles. His work on Latter-day Saint themes focuses on scriptural theology, with a special emphasis on the Book of Mormon. He currently serves as the editor of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, published by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU, and as the associate director of the Mormon Theology Seminar. He and Karen, his wife, live with their five children in Provo, Utah.

Staff Highlight: Garrett D. Rose GARRETT D. ROSE ([email protected]) IS DONOR LIAISON WITH LDS PHILANTHROPIES.

Garrett D. Rose was born and raised in Santa Clara, Utah. After serving a mission in the Arkansas Little Rock Mission, he attended and gradu- ated from BYU in 2008. There, his passion for making a difference in the world led him to receive his BS in recreation management, and he was the first student to achieve the newly created nonprofit management minor. Rose worked full time for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Utah County while remain- ing a full-time student at BYU. Shortly after graduation he worked for the American Red Cross in Utah County. Soon after that assignment, he was offered a position to work with the Boy Scouts of America in Santa Barbara, California. Rose was then offered a position working with Deseret Industries, tasked with creating and piloting a new program to more effectively help associates find work immediately after their training program had ended. He was able to develop the program, and it holds a success rate of over 90 percent in helping associates find and secure employment after their training. Rose has been with LDS Philanthropies since 2013 and continues to show his love and passion for the nonprofit industry while serving Religious Education. He is married to his wonderful wife, Brooke, and together they have four rambunctious boys and reside in Orem, Utah.

WINTER 2018 5 RESEARCH UPDATE

A New Age of Book of Mormon Study

BY THOMAS A. WAYMENT ([email protected]) IS PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR OF THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES CENTER.

n the winter of 2017, Professors Nicholas Frederick, and others discussing the Book of Mormon together from IMichael MacKay, and Joseph Spencer set out with the a variety of perspectives, much the way that people of all support of Religious Education to sponsor and promote backgrounds study the Bible and the Qur’an. Until recently, an academic conversation about the Book of Mormon faithful Mormons and others have found little common that was both sensitive to faith and academically rigorous. ground when it comes to the Book of Mormon. For Latter- They successfully organized an academic conference that day Saints, it is an ancient record containing the fullness was held at Utah State University and was titled “Book of of the gospel. Non-Mormons have generally dismissed Mormon Studies: Toward a Conversation.” Their work is or mocked the Book of Mormon as a nineteenth-century intellectually indebted to a host of scholars from a variety creation, and a dull one at that. The text and its context of disciplines—Brant Gardner, Terryl Givens, Paul Gutjahr, are both fascinating, however.” Grant Hardy, and Royal Skousen, among others—and it I think that it is a testament to the last several decades is genealogically connected to the work of the Religious of increasing interest in the Book of Mormon among Studies Center, the Maxwell Institute, BYU Studies, and scholars and to the quality of training that Mormon other campus and noncampus entities. In other words, the scholars have received that allows this conversation to timing was right for an academic conversation to develop, move forward in a positive direction. Those participating there was a critical mass of scholars interested in the topic, in the conversation, whether Latter-day Saint or other- and there was a hungry audience who felt that the Book wise, will benefit as new possibilities for collaboration of Mormon was ready for close academic scrutiny by an emerge, as new lines of inquiry present themselves, and expanded group of participants and conversation partners. Historically, the conversation about the Book of Mormon has been defined by extreme viewpoints, with defenders and detractors aligned in ways that permit little room for productive conversations to develop and with little hope of finding common ground. In one sense, the effort to invite scholars from all disciplines and academic training—to summarize the call for papers that went out through bomstudies.com—could have failed miserably. Old battle lines could have emerged, believers could have found themselves staking their claims against the assaults of academics. But, in the words of John G. Turner, one of the keynote speakers and author of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (Harvard, MA: Belknap Press, 2012), “What interests me is the possibility of Latter-day Saints “Book of Mormon Studies” Conference. Photo by Michael Hubbard MacKay.

6 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW as new conversations take place. For one side, the Book Education and the Religious Studies Center. It promises of Mormon is a nineteenth-century, uniquely American to bring together an impressive group of scholars who religious text that exists as a founding document for a new are interested in the Book of Mormon as a religious text. religious movement. For the other side, the text is a sacred, I hope that in the coming months the committee that orga- foundation document that reports the beliefs and experi- nized the first conference will find a way to get the papers ences of Christ-believing Jews who lived the law of Moses in print or to produce a volume of papers that makes their with the intent that it would lead them to the Messiah- work more accessible to a wider academic and interested Savior. But, for so many, this has appeared to be the focus audience. Their work has the look and feel of what Book of the conversation, namely the question of whether the of Mormon studies might become in the future. We are Book of Mormon is one or the other. Instead, the conver- witnessing a new age of maturity with respect to the sation can develop in ways that help both sides see how study of this important American religious document, and narratives are constructed, what genres of literature are Latter-day Saint scholars have entered this conversation employed in the book’s stories, how the Book of Mormon as welcome participants who remain committed to the uses both Old and New Testament phraseology and sacred meaning of the text but who are also willing to ask sources, and how the book engages nineteenth-century probing questions of its contents. American themes and practices. The new group plans to hold an annual meeting, as per the vote of the group, and will continue to refine its organizational structure and build connections to already existing academic societies and conferences. The conference began with a review of recent and important books that had been published on the Book of Mormon by Latter-day Saints and members of other faiths. The conference then moved to traditional thirty-minute scholarly papers by noted academics, followed by audi- ence responses. One attendee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, a noted scholar from the Joseph Smith Papers Project and an expert in early Mormonism, drew attention to some papers that were most influential: “I was impressed by the

close literary readings offered by Kimberly M. Berkey on Top: Grandin Press. Photo by Brent R. Nordgren. the book of Helaman and Kylie Nielson Turley on Alma’s Below: Title page of the Book of Mormon. Courtesy of Church History Library. hell. I was very interested in Daniel Gullotta’s paper on the golden plates, which was a response to the recent work of Ann Taves on the issue of the authenticity of the plates. I appreciated the paper by Jeremy Talmage showing that early Americans, including Joseph Smith, consistently described American Indians as red-skinned, not black-skinned (as in the Book of Mormon). Jared Hickman’s keynote address was a stunning tour de force of Book of Mormon interpretation.” After reading the titles of the papers and doing interviews to prepare to write this article, I genuinely feel that I missed an opportunity by not being in attendance. I look forward to the meeting that will be held in 2018 and which will be sponsored in part by Religious historian’s corner

The Journey West

By Richard E. Bennett and Thomas A. Wayment

RICHARD E. BENNETT ([email protected]) IS PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY AND DOCTRINE AT BYU.

THOMAS A. WAYMENT ([email protected]) IS PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR OF THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES CENTER.

This interview features Bennett’s forthcoming overland journals, of which many have been published, volume The Journey West: The Mormon Pioneer Journals and that includes the William Clayton journals; the of Horace K. Whitney with Insights from Helen Mar Thomas Bullock journals, which were published a few Kimball Whitney, the first husband-and-wife account of years ago by Signature Press; the Hosea Stout journals; the the Mormon pioneer trek west. The book will be copub- Howard Egan journals; and the Orson Pratt journals. So lished by the RSC and Deseret Book and is projected to be there’s a coterie of overland journals, but the journals of released July 2018. Horace K. Whitney with Helen Mar Kimball’s insights and reminiscences had never been published together before. Q: Dick, tell us about the journals, where they’re I came across them when I was writing my dissertation housed, and how you came to work on them. thirty years ago and relied on them very, very heavily A: Well, the journals are housed in the Church History because they are so rich in detail. They’re not reflective Library of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, and they’ve diaries like you see in some of the others’ diaries here. been there for a long time. They’re smallish in size, about Instead, they’re immediate to the time—what’s going on, nine inches high, four or five inches wide, and leather the place, the people—although they get very much into bound. There are six journals that cover the exodus period. the doctrines of the Church. So that’s why I found them so very, very fascinating. Q: So these are trail journals? A: Well, there is another missionary journal dated 1843 Q: Fascinating! that is not part of this project, but what we’re looking at A: I referenced them often in two of my books, Mormons are the exodus trail journals that cover February 1846 to at the Missouri, published by the University of Oklahoma, October 1847. and then We’ll Find the Place, by Deseret Book and Oklahoma.

Q: I believe there have been earlier studies of the Q: Excellent. Now, am I mistaken to say that this is journals of this period. Can you help us situate this and one of the few places where we have a husband and what’s been done on them before and how you came to wife who are journaling at the same time? work on them? A: [Laughs] This is fascinating because it isn’t just the A: No one’s ever published them before. They’ve been fact that they are husband and wife; these two—Horace K. sitting there for a long time. They’re part of a family of Whitney, who is the son of Newel K. Whitney (bishop of

8 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW the Church), and Helen Mar Kimball, who is the daughter Q: And how old are they when they head out? What of Heber C. Kimball (one of the original Twelve). They are their ages respectively? grow up in Kirtland. She’s five; he’s a few years older. She’s A: He’s twenty-three years old, and she’s about seven- baptized by her uncle in the Chagrin River in Kirtland teen. They’re just kids. It’s classic; it’s a romantic story on in 1836, and he’s baptized in the same place in Kirtland, a pioneer trek. so they’re the only ones that we have seen who are like that—children of Kirtland. Then, when they get to Nauvoo, Q: So they set out and independently are writing they’re married on 3 February 1846, one day before the about their day-to-day affairs. exodus starts. A: Well, he is the one who writes a day-to-day contem- porary diary because it was expected of the pioneers, Q: Oh, wow. How fascinating! especially those who were leading in the pioneer company, A: So it’s a honeymoon—what I call a “honeymud”— to keep a diary. crossing the Iowa. It’s a remarkable story with no parallel in the history of the Church, of a young couple heading Q: So he’s writing every day. west on the exodus. You usually think in terms of vigorous A: They’re also writing letters back and forth, but one individual pioneers going across, but this is a couple whom of her greatest contributions is when she goes back years I’m calling “children of the Restoration.” later to plug in details that give a woman’s perspective and that provide information that wasn’t found in the imme- diate diary. I’ve not seen anything quite like this in the history of the Church.

Horace K. Whitney. Helen Mar Kimball Whitney.

WINTER 2018 9 “Easy? Anything but! Their first three children died on the trek coming west.”Photo courtesy of Utah State Historical Society.

Q: Is she doing this knowing what her husband Q: And what’s her perspective of this? wrote? A: It’s a romantic but tragic story, too, because they are A: Oh yes, she has access to his diaries. suffering with the rest of the Saints as they’re heading west.

Q: And so she is actually thinking about what he wrote. Q: And so the diary has these moments that show this A: Oh yeah, and she’s going over all the diaries and more is a family struggling with loss. or less says, “Well, Horace missed this, and so I’m going A: His journals, like I said, are not all that reflective. You to add this, or explain this more fully.” She would refine also have to look at her accounts and their letters one to parts here and there. Sections of her reminiscences have another, where she begins to talk more in terms of the been published elsewhere but never in the context of her emotions involved. It’s not that his diary is emotionless, husband’s diaries, never in the completion of the thought but he was on the move all the time, and there’s not a lot of pattern of the episode, of the event, of the doctrine, which time to be deeply reflective about what’s going on. is one of the reasons why this is such a valuable exercise. Q: And years later she can come back and share some Q: Now, tell me a little bit about him and her as they of the raw feelings that she had, some of the hardship. travel. I don’t remember this from reading it, but was it A: Although, in their letters they certainly talk about that. an easy trek for them? The last two weeks I’ve found some of these letters, which A: Easy? Anything but! Their first three children died in I’m going to be incorporating in the footnotes on the days infancy before the end of 1849. that they’re going on so it’s an even greater enrichment than I thought it was going to be. Q: And this is documented? A: In their writings, yes.

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“It’s a remarkable story with no parallel in the history of the Church, of a young couple heading west on the exodus.”

everything else is a total picture. He has a beautiful pen, Q: Wow, this is excellent to hear. As a reader thinks he knows the language so well, he’s very well educated, about this book, let me just paint a picture, and you add and he can write like the others can’t replicate. nuance. The book contains transcriptions of both of his journals and her reminiscent accounts, with annota- Q: Excellent. And it’s also, as you mentioned, a tions tying to Church history events, to people, and picture from someone that was born in the Restoration, to places. What would you say was your emphasis in so this is his whole world. deciding what to annotate and what not to annotate? A: Well, his parents, Newel K. Whitney and Elizabeth What kind of depth and layering did you intentionally Ann Whitney, joined the Church in 1830 in Kirtland when bring to it? he was just a young boy. So he’s raised in Kirtland, just like A: Emotions, doctrines, episodes, key individuals, and his wife-to-be was raised in Kirtland. Then they spend fascinating experiences that are going on. For instance, their teenage years in Nauvoo, and they get married the when the Mormon Battalion is called to go march to the day before the exodus. You can’t get a better story than west, there are some real tugging emotions going on in that. [laughs] terms of loss of loved ones. So, where I come across gaps Then, the woman’s perspective is very, very crucial to in the historical record, or emotion and sentiment that you incorporate. Helen Mar Kimball Whitney was also given don’t necessarily see at the time, or doctrinal expositions— in marriage to Joseph Smith in 1843 by her father, Heber C. particularly on plural marriage, on the law of adoption, Kimball, and she’s the youngest of all of his wives; she and on other salvific processes that occur at Winter was fourteen at the time. Her sister-in-law, Sarah Ann Quarters—that’s what I add. Whitney, was also a plural wife of Joseph’s. So her

Q: What is it that you would say the reader would gain the most from in opening this book? What is it? Is it a woman’s perspective that’s so interesting? A: Well, first of all, he is going to give insight. His diaries are unique in the following sense. The exodus covers various segments, from the time they leave Nauvoo, cross Iowa (that treacherous trek across Iowa in the spring of ’46), spend their time at Winter Quarters (that is a terrible moment in the history of the Church, when so many are passing away from September ’46 to April ’47), travels in the vanguard company with Brigham Young, establishes Salt Lake City and other early valley establishments, and then comes back to Winter Quarters. Of all the prairie diaries, there is hardly another one that covers all these segments in

the sequence that he does. So the completion of the Devil’s Gate, Sweetwater, by Samuel C. Mills and Edward Jagiello, prairie story and the vanguard coming to Salt Lake and 17 August 1858. Library of Congress.

WINTER 2018 11 Richard E. Bennett. Photo by Brent R. Nordgren.

“. . . Horace is not the kind of guy that needs to be in the limelight. He is not like some others that beg for attention. He’s happy to be in the background.”

comments about being a plural wife of Joseph are riveting. modest man. You know what he does on the side? He loves The whole story about her marriage to Joseph will be, to play the flute. So he’s playing in Pitt’s brass band while and has been, of enormous interest to Church historians. crossing Iowa, in Winter Quarters, in Salt Lake. He goes on But now we’re putting into context her second marriage various missions, but he always keeps saying, “I don’t need (for “time”) to Horace K. Whitney and how she feels a position in this church; I’m happy where I am.” Both of about being married to him. So plural marriage is a major them are very modest, careful observers of what’s going on factor in the background of this story. As one of Joseph’s in Church history from a perspective that I think is unique. youngest plural wives, she speaks reverently and very supportively of that story, which needs to be told within Q: I want to put this on the record, this question. the context of her marriage to Horace. I don’t know of You’ve mentioned discovering letters, and coming from another journal quite like it. a researcher of your caliber, tell me about that. Are By the way, Horace is not the kind of guy that needs to these something you’ve just recently uncovered? be in the limelight. He is not like some others that beg for A: Well, more materials have been donated through the attention. He’s happy to be in the background. He’s a very years, both to the Utah State University library and to the

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Church History Library, so I’ve been spending some time in both places. And there are some wonderful trail letters between the two that I hadn’t seen before that enrich the story, and elements of which I’m adding to this work.

Q: Excellent. So these are letters between the two that have been housed in various archival collections but not at the Church officially. A: Not so much at BYU but at the Church and Utah State University. Significantly, their son—they had eleven chil- dren together, eight of whom survived—Orson F. Whitney becomes an Apostle of the Church; his writing abilities are like his dad’s and mother’s. He’s trained in writing, and he’s able to explain things in a beautiful way. Orson F. Whitney has long been known as one of the great writing Apostles. I can see where he’s getting it, from his parents. He also writes a biography of his grandfather Heber C. Kimball.

Q: Yes. Dick, this is a great work. We are excited to see it in print.

Above: Horace K. Whitney journal entry for 24 July 1847. Courtesy of Church History Library. Below: F. O. C. Darley, Emigrants Crossing the Plains (1869).

WINTER 2018 13 The Relationship between Religion, Mental Health, and the Latter-day Saints

BY DANIEL K JUDD

DANIEL K JUDD ([email protected]) IS ASSOCIATE DEAN OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AT BYU.

The relationship of religion and mental health and God have business with each other; and in opening has long been a controversial issue in the social sciences, ourselves to His influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled. among mental health professionals, and between religious The universe, and those parts of it which our personal leaders and lay people alike. William James, an American being constitutes, takes a turn genuinely for the worse or academic, physician, and philosopher, championed the the better in proportion as each one of us fulfills or evades positive side of this debate when he concluded, “We God’s commands.”1 Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalytic theory and therapy, saw the relationship between religion and mental health very differently than William James. Freud’s description of religion as “the universal compulsive neurosis of humanity”2 catalyzed a negative perception among many of the academics and clinicians of his day towards religious belief and practice that has continued to the present.3 Dr. Albert Ellis, one of the founders of cogni- tive behavioral therapy, represents the attitude currently held by many academics and clinicians: “Religiosity is in many ways equivalent to irrational thinking and emotional disturbance. . . . The elegant therapeutic solution to emotional problems is to be quite unreligious. . . . The less religious they are, the more emotionally healthy they will be.”4 Such statements by William James, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Ellis were a part of what motivated me at the beginning of my academic career to go beyond the theo- retical and anecdotal to examine the research evidence concerning the relationships between religious belief and William James. Wikimedia Commons. practice, and mental health.

14 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW the conclusion that religious belief, and most especially As a Latter-day Saint, I have personal religious devotion, facilitates mental health, been interested to discover marital cohesion, and family stability. These positive rela- that the research outcomes tionships between religion and mental health are found in from studies on members the research that has been done on each of the religious of The Church of Jesus traditions I have studied—Catholicism, Protestantism, Christ of Latter-day Saints is Islam, Judaism, and other faiths including the Seventh-day remarkably positive. Adventists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Bahá’í, and Hare Krishna. Of the 540 studies that met the specific criteria for my initial study (1900–1995), 51 percent reported that religion The research I have done over the last thirty years was positively associated with mental health, 16 percent includes studies on the mental health of most religions indicated a negative relationship, 28 percent were neutral, from the early part of the twentieth century to the present. and 5 percent yielded mixed results.5 While I have sifted through thousands of anecdotal essays, media reports, blog posts, religious discourses, and apolo- Research on Latter-day Saints getic publications, I have spent most of my time in the As a Latter-day Saint, I have been interested to discover academic journals and working with individuals and fami- that the research outcomes from studies on members of lies in educational, clinical, and pastoral settings. With The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is remark- few exceptions, my reviews of the academic research have ably positive. Nearly two-thirds of the research outcomes produced little support for the assertions of Freud, Ellis, (71 percent) pertaining to Latter-day Saint samples and others that religion facilitates mental illness. While indicated a positive relationship, 4 percent negative, 24 the research also includes contradictions, exceptions, and percent neutral, and 1 percent mixed.6 ambiguities, the larger body of academic research supports

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WINTER 2018 15 Even though the research literature on Latter-day Beyond the Natural Senses Saints and mental health includes some negative outcomes, One of the challenges for those engaged in research, and the overall body of research from the early part of the for all who want to have confidence in the results, is what twentieth century to the present supports the conclusion has come to be known as “confirmation bias,” which has that Latter-day Saints who live their lives consistent with been defined as the “search for evidence that will confirm the teachings of their faith experience greater well-being, their existing beliefs while also ignoring or downplaying increased marital and family stability, less delinquency, disconfirming evidence.”9 In other words, it is common less depression, less anxiety, less suicide, and less for individuals and communities to tacitly, and sometimes substance abuse than those who do not.7 Professor Harold explicitly, embrace the arguments of those who think the Koenig has reported similar results for other religious way they do and reject (and sometimes even demonize) traditions: “Indeed, at least two-thirds of these studies those whose opinions are different than their own. During report that [religious/spiritual] people experience more my initial review of the research I have mentioned thus far, positive emotions (well-being, happiness, life satisfac- the majority of the studies with negative outcomes came tion), fewer emotional disorders (depression, anxiety, from the earlier part of the twentieth century. My inqui- suicide, substance abuse), more social connections (social ries into this anomaly led me to discover that some of the support, marital stability, social capital), and live healthier early psychological instruments used to measure mental lifestyles.”8 health were biased against religious belief. It is relatively easy for me as a believing Latter-day Saint to see the antireligious biases in the arguments made by individuals such as Freud and Ellis, but we must also As a new mission president, I be open to the reality of our own biases as well. Having began to notice that some of an understanding “of things as they really are, and of my hardest working and most things as they really will be” (Jacob 4:13) is difficult at best fruitful missionaries were without an epistemology that includes but goes beyond suffering with feelings of mortal mind and method. Both science and religion offer a anxiety and depression. perspective by which truth can be identified, understood, and applied. While many religious leaders agree that there is revelatory “power beyond [the] natural senses,”10 many of these same leaders also believe that science is an impor- tant means by which truth can be discovered. President Russell M. Nelson, President of the Church and a physi- cian by training, recently stated: “There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion or both. . . . All truth is part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Whether truth comes from a scientific laboratory or by revelation from the Lord, it is compatible.”11

Research and Revelation on Grace and Good Works My own experience with allowing an “extra dislike of the one error to draw me gradually into the opposite one”12 is one common to many young Latter-day Saint missionar- ies serving in the ninteenth and twentieth centuries. As a

Photo by James Iliff Jeffery. young missionary serving in Southern California from 1975 to 1977, I quickly learned that the message I was sharing

16 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW Photo by Matt Reier. Courtesy of Intellectual Reserve, Inc. about the relationship between the grace of God and the missionaries were suffering with feelings of anxiety and importance of personal obedience in the process of salva- depression. Some were even experiencing from what tion was not popular with those who identified themselves I knew from my clinical training to be what psycholo- as evangelical Christians. I quickly became weary of gists define as “scrupulosity,” which was being manifest hearing many of these committed Christians quote the as a compulsive need to confess even the smallest of following words of the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the transgressions that normally would have been something Ephesians, “By grace are ye saved through faith; and that they could have resolved between themselves and God. not of yourselves: it is a gift of God: not of works, lest any During an interview with one of these missionaries, the man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8–9). The more these following words from the writings of Martin Luther, the individuals would speak of the grace of Christ from the sixteenth-century Protestant reformer, came to mind. In writings of the Apostle Paul, the greater my desire became the following statement, Luther describes his experiences to quote the following from the Epistle of James: “Wilt in an Augustinian monastery during his training to become thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?” a priest that paralleled the experiences of my struggling (James 2:20). Without being explicitly aware, my belief missionaries: “When I was a monk, I made a great effort in the importance of good works was becoming a bias to live according to the requirements of the monastic against grace. rule. I made a practice of confessing and reciting all my Even though my attitude towards grace (and my evan- sins, but always with prior contrition; I went to confession gelical associates) would soften in the years that followed, frequently, and I performed the assigned penances faith- it wasn’t until I served as a mission president in grace- fully. Nevertheless, my conscience could never achieve drenched West Africa and returned home and became certainty but was always in doubt and said: ‘You have not immersed in the research on the relationship between the done this correctly. You were not contrite enough. You grace of God, legalism (doing good works for the wrong omitted this in your confession.’ Therefore, the longer I reasons), and mental health, that my bias against grace tried to heal my uncertain, weak, and troubled conscience would be transformed into a more informed and hopefully with human traditions, the more uncertain, weak, and inspired advocacy. As a new mission president, I began to troubled I continually made it. In this way, by observing notice that some of my hardest working and most fruitful human traditions, I transgressed them even more; and by

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following the righteousness of the monastic order, I was with the grace of Christ, legalism, and mental health. This never able to reach it.”13 study is currently under academic review, but Figure 2 Many elders and sisters could identify with what illustrates a sampling of the results reported in our study. Luther described. Some of these same missionaries would The red bars represent the higher prevalence of eventually be helped by working with mental health shame, anxiety, and depression in the lives of the individu- professionals, but all were strengthened by learning how als we studied who were more focused on works (legalism) Luther’s eventual rediscovery of the grace of Jesus Christ, than grace. The blue bars represent those who reported and the appropriate place of good works in the process less shame, anxiety, and depression because of their expe- of salvation, was made possible in the midst of his suffer- riences with God’s grace. ing.14 President M. Russell Ballard, Acting President of The data for our study, collected from 635 Latter-day the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, described how this Saints, support our theory that experiencing the grace same confusion over the relationship between grace and of God would have a positive relationship with mental works exists in the Church today: “No matter how hard we health and that an individual’s legalistic beliefs would be work, no matter how much we obey, no matter how many correlated with decreased mental health because of the good things we do in this life, it would not be enough were way these beliefs interfere with their ability to experience it not for Jesus Christ and His loving grace. On our own grace.16 Our research also supports President Ballard’s we cannot earn the kingdom of God—no matter what we comment referenced earlier that some Latter-day Saints do. Unfortunately, there are some within the Church who become “so preoccupied with performing good works” have become so preoccupied with performing good works that they forget the importance of having a “complete that they forget that those works—as good as they may dependence on Christ.” be—are hollow unless they are accompanied by a complete dependence on Christ.”15 Conclusion Motivated by the needs of the missionaries with Brigham Young University is one of the few places on whom I served, and being inspired by the teachings of earth where a spiritually inspired and academically rigor- Luther and the words of ancient and modern prophets, ous blend of revelation and research is possible. Those two of my colleagues and I designed what would become of us in Religious Education and the Religious Studies the first empirical research study ever done with Latter- Center are working diligently to learn and to share the day Saints on the relationship between their experiences fruits of blending revelation and research, and are striving

18 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW Those of us in Religious Education and the Religious Studies Center are working diligently to learn and to share the fruits of blending revelation and research, and are striving to do our part to contribute to this noble and inspired work.

NOTES 1. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: Modern Library, 1902), 516–17. 2. Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion, trans. J. Strachey (New York: W. W. Norton, 1961), 55. 3. José L. Duarte et al., “Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (2014), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X14000430. 4. Albert Ellis, “Psychotherapy and Atheistic Values: A Response to A. E. Bergin’s ‘Psychotherapy and Religious Values,’” Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 48 (1980): 637. 5. Daniel K Judd, “Appendix A: Religious Affiliation and Mental Health,” in Religion, Mental Health, and the Latter-day Saints, ed. Daniel K Judd (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 1999), 257. 6. Daniel K Judd, “Religiosity, Mental Health, and the Latter-day Saints: A Preliminary Review of Literature [1923–1995],” in Latter-day Saint Social Life: Social Research on the LDS Church and Its Members, ed. James T. Duke (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 1997), 473–97. 7. Judd, “Religiosity, Mental Health, and the Latter-day Saints,” 473. 8. Harold Koenig, Dana King, and Verna B. Carson, Handbook of Religion and Health (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 600. 9. Duarte et al., “Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science.” 10. Gordon B. Hinckley, “The Cornerstones of Our Faith,” Ensign, November 1984, 50. 11. Russell M. Nelson, as quoted in Marianne Holman Prescott, “Elder Nelson Dedicates Life Sciences Building: ‘There Is No Conflict between Science and Religion,’” Deseret News, 14 April 2015, https:// www.deseretnews.com/article/865626407/A-new-building-for-Life- Sciences-at-BYU.html. 12. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: HarperOne, 2001), 186. 13. Martin Luther, Luther’s Works, vol. 27: Lectures on Galatians, 1535, Chapters 5–6; 1519, Chapters 1–6, ed. J. J. Pelikan, H. C. Oswald, and H. T. Lehmann (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1999), 13. President M. Russell Ballard. 14. Daniel K Judd, “Clinical and Pastoral Implications of the Ministry of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation,” Open Theology 2, to do our part to contribute to this noble and inspired no. 1 (2016): 324–37. work. Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve 15. M. Russell Ballard, “Building Bridges of Understanding,” Ensign, Apostles described this process as follows: “Logic does not June 1998, 65. 16. Daniel K Judd, W. Justin Dyer, and Justin B. Top, “Grace, Legalism, solo very well. It performs many tasks, but logic can be and Mental Health: Examining Direct and Mediating Relationships” morally weightless. It is a blend of revelation, reason, and (in review). research that serves the kingdom well. Again and again, 17. Neal A. Maxwell, “Blending Research and Revelation” (remarks at the the men and women involved prove that the Spirit and Brigham Young University President’s Leadership Council Meetings, scholarship can enhance each other.”17 19 March 2004), 2; copy in author’s possession.

WINTER 2018 19 outreach Key Priorities and Initiatives Related to Our Mission

By Brent L. Top and R. Devan Jensen

BRENT L. TOP ([email protected]) IS DEAN OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AT BYU.

R. DEVAN JENSEN ([email protected]) IS EXECUTIVE EDITOR AT THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES CENTER.

Q: Brent, what surprises have you had during your term as a dean? A: Well, I think the biggest surprise was the amount of work and stress involved. There are so many differ- ent parts of Religious Education that all need my attention. It is so much different than just teaching my classes and working on my own projects. Now my work affects the entire college and all that they do in their classes and projects. It is like juggling many balls at the same time. Hopefully, I haven’t dropped too many along the way. Generally, I’ve been very pleased with the work of Religious Education. It is a privilege to be part of this great work. Sometimes there are also disappoint- ments and discouragements, as with any large organization. The one area Dean Brent L. Top. Photo by Mitchell Henderson. that I probably wasn’t anticipating was the amount of fund-raising that a been alumni and having taken religion dean does to further the work of the Q. So you have to go out and talk classes, they are usually surprised to college. with people and ask for money? find out that we have financial needs A: Yes, although people are familiar and have to fund-raise. I think they’re with BYU and Religious Ed, having surprised that the Church doesn’t

20 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW just pay for everything or that the university doesn’t just give us all the money we need. The university, while generous in appropriating funds, cannot cover all the needs we have for research and other projects. So the university and the Church expect us to raise funds for our key priorities and initiatives that are related to our overall mission.

Q: So what are those key priorities? A: Over the four and a half years that I’ve been dean, we have settled Inspiring teaching and experiential learning involve teaching not only students on campus but also on four major priorities. The first extending that teaching beyond the classrooms. Courtesy of Richard B. Crookston. initiative is inspiring teaching and experiential learning. The very first thing mentioned in our college mission statement relates to our teaching—teaching not only students on campus but also extending that teaching beyond the classrooms and helping the broader Church. So, giving the students inspiring religious educational opportunities is part of that initiative. The second initiative, again directly related to our mission state- ment, is the gospel scholarship media initiative; that is, anything related to media and technology and how we can further the mission

and message of Religious Education One of our biggest and most visible priorities is the work of the Religious Studies Center. through modern media. Photo by Richard B. Crookston. The third one is a very exciting one that I’ve seen some real growth in the Religious Studies Center, the the costs of salaries, or what’s the last few years, and that is the area research and publication arm of involved in the RSC fund-raising of religious outreach. That includes Religious Education. That includes initiative? all our efforts to establish friendships all its books and publications as well A: Yes, as the umbrella entity over and build bridges of understand- as grants for research—both for the research and publication, the RSC ing and respect between Latter-day academy and for the broader Church. has a lot of expenses. Not only do Saints and those not of our faith. we employ student interns that are Then one of our biggest and Q: It can be expensive running a editing, designing, and marketing most visible priorities is the work of publishing house. Are you including our materials, but we pay the salaries

WINTER 2018 21 In our ongoing outreach effort, we have interfaith dialogues with major religious leaders and scholars of different denominations.

and benefits of the support staff and received a grant to research that topic. denominations. We invite them to administration. In addition to the RoseAnn Benson is not a BYU religion come to campus to present lectures. costs of publishing books, we give faculty member or even currently For example, we have the annual grants for research that leads to affiliated with the university, but she Faith, Family, and Society lecture publication, and not only to our own has done a wonderful work in helping series, and then we publish those religion faculty but to other schol- Latter-day Saints and others under- talks in a volume. In addition, we ars who are working on important stand the influence of Alexander have interfaith conferences and ongo- projects. Campbell on Sidney Rigdon and the ing dialogue with the Community of many comparisons between Joseph Christ and the various Restorationist Q: Tell us about how people apply Smith’s and Alexander Campbell’s branches. We recently had a wonder- for grants. restoration movements. ful conference with about ten A: My associate dean, Daniel Judd, religious leaders from all across the who has responsibility over the RSC, Q: This connects well with your spectrum of Christian denominations each year sends out applications and religious outreach efforts because talking about their respective views information concerning the grants of the connection between faith of the afterlife. These presentations available to BYU faculty and grants traditions. What efforts are being will be published in a significant book. available for those in the broader made in the area of religious The religious outreach council has academy. For example, I just received outreach? done significant and very fulfilling a brand-new RSC publication on A: We have interfaith dialogues work in bringing LDS and non-LDS Alexander Campbell and Joseph going on with major religious leaders and scholars together to Smith by RoseAnn Benson, who leaders and scholars of different better understand one another and

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work together on projects of shared Professor Tyler Griffin from the New Testament Jerusalem would values. department of Ancient Scripture have looked like. The team’s plan is and his team of animation experts to do the same thing with other cites Q: What is going on with the have made an app that is available mentioned in the New Testament so gospel scholarship media initiative? to anybody in the world, free of that this ­technology-savvy genera- A: Everything having to do with charge. With this app, you can see tion can better understand the New increasing gospel and scriptural how the old city of Jerusalem, the Testament. knowledge through media is in that Temple Mount, and Herod’s Temple Tyler has been involved with initiative, and I’m trying to raise looked in Jesus’s day, in 360-degree the Virtual Book of Mormon Project funds to support the work because it view. It has been a valuable tool as well. It is a very fascinating way is very expensive. not only for our students as they’re to help our students and others to We have several very important ­studying the New Testament but also understand important concepts of gospel media projects. One example for anybody in the Church or in the the Book of Mormon, such as which is the Virtual New Testament Project. world that wants to envision what plates composed the Book of Mormon.

With this app, you can see how the old city of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, and Herod’s Temple looked in Jesus’s day, in 360-degree view.

This virtual reality technology allows anyone in the world to envision what New Testament Jerusalem would have looked like, thus helping to better understand the New Testament. Photo by Richard B. Crookston.

WINTER 2018 23 The Hallowed Ground, Sacred Journeys project is a wonderful tool that The Gospel Scripture Roundtable series will be enhanced and better than can enrich a person’s knowledge about our early Church history. ever. Besides a roundtable of scripture scholars, there will be additional www.byujourneys.org. resources and videos made available through the hyperlinks posted with each episode.

The team developed a virtual reality application where people can actually You can see a video that explains each place, and then see Mormon’s cave with the various­ plates and how one set of plates you can also hear Church history experts talking about becomes the large plates and how the significance of the site. another set becomes the small plates and so forth. Another significant project is our any more of those?” This series will way to bless the Church but also to Hallowed Ground, Sacred Journeys be enhanced and even better than have resources that we could use for series, which is being spearheaded by ever. Rather than just a roundtable of our students and online courses and Professor Craig Ostler of the Church talking heads, there will be additional also that could be used internationally History and Doctrine Department. resources and videos made available for people who do not have BYU TV Craig and his team have put together through the hyperlinks posted with or can’t be on campus for religious a great website, byujourneys.org. This each episode. We anticipate having educational experiences. They could is where a student or anybody can go four different series of scripture access it through the Web and the for important information about LDS or gospel roundtable discussions: RSC website. Church history sites. You can see a foundations of the Restoration, Jesus video that explains each place, and Christ and the Everlasting Gospel, Q: Let’s discuss experiential learn- then you can also hear Church history doctrine and teachings of the Book ing because, after all, we’re here for experts talking about the significance of Mormon, and the eternal family. the students. of the site. It is a wonderful tool that We estimate that it will cost about A: President Kevin J Worthen has can enrich a person’s knowledge five thousand dollars an episode. We emphasized experiential learning and about our early history. will have students and others do inspiring teaching, and in Religious I’m probably most excited about the additional hyperlink resources Education we’re looking at how we the Gospel Scripture Roundtable so that any person can watch parts meet that goal of our university presi- series. I don’t go anywhere in the of it, download it and put it on their dent. How do we enrich classroom Church without having somebody phone and listen to it and watch it as experiences? There are a couple of stop me and say, “We’ve seen you on a podcast, or they can just look up the things that are going on right now TV. We’ve seen your colleagues. We articles and chapters with additional that are very significant. One is the appreciate the work that you have information. I’m really excited about spring or summer term Church done, and why are we not getting this project, and it will be a wonderful history travel study program. We

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Many students are participating in archaeological digs in the Holy Land with some of our faculty who are world experts on biblical archaeology. There are great opportunities for students to have experiences with the Bible lands, literally digging in the Holy Land turf. Courtesy of Matthew J. Grey. subsidize that with scholarships and studying in the Old Testament or So my plea to our readers, our grants to students to be able to spend New Testament. I want to be able to listeners, our watchers, our students, eight weeks studying the Doctrine provide greater financial support for our alumni would be this: Think of and Covenants and the history of the students to have those experiential how Religious Education has influ- Church on-site. This last year we gave learning opportunities outside of the enced your life in some way through two-thousand-dollar scholarships Joseph Smith Building at BYU. the years. Maybe it was an inspiring to many of the students who partici- class with a great religion teacher pated in that. We hope to continue to Q: So, if you could put in a plea to or maybe it was an important book support students who want to have donors, what would you say? authored by one of our faculty or one this kind of experiential learning A: I could just get down on my published by the RSC that has inspired opportunity. knees and beg. I’ll put hat in hand, you. If you have been blessed by BYU Another thing that is going on is if necessary. I know there are many Religious Education in some way that we have several of our Religious opportunities for donors to share, but please share a gift—whether small Education students participating in Religious Education would be blessed or large—in honor of the influence archaeological digs in the Holy Land with a gift of one dollar or one million of that class or that professor or that with some of our faculty who are dollars. Every little bit helps. We publication. I invite you to share with world experts on biblical archaeol- have established some goals for each us of your means so we can continue ogy. There are great opportunities for of those initiatives and every penny, the legacy of producing great scholar- students to have experiences with every dollar that is given to Religious ship, blessing students and also giving the Bible lands, literally digging in Education can be designated to one of others the opportunity to understand the Holy Land turf. What a way to those four initiatives. the Church better. To donate, contact truly experience what they have been Garrett Rose at 801-422-3899 or email [email protected].

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26 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW Building Readers: A Parent’s Archaeology.” Journal of the UT: RSC; Salt Lake City: Deseret Guide, 12–14. Salt Lake City: Utah Canadian Society for Coptic Book, 2017. State Board of Education, 2017. Studies 9 (2017): 67–75. Cope, Rachel. Introduction to Baugh, Alexander L. “Cowdery, ———, and Michael R. Trotter. “Three Mormon Women’s History: Oliver,” “Hale, Isaac,” “Malachi New Fragments from the Beyond Biography. Madison, NJ: 3 (‘part’)–4,” “Smith, Alvin,” J. Rendel Harris Collection Fairleigh Dickinson University “Smith, Don Carlos,” “Smith, (Birmingham).” Analecta Press, 2017. Emma Hale,” “Smith, Hyrum,” Papyrologica 28 (2017): 19–27. ———, Amy Easton-Flake, Keith “Smith, Katharine (Catherine ———. Review of The Macquarie Papyri A. Erekson, and Lisa Olsen in P of GP),” “Smith, Lucy,” I: A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Tait. Mormon Women’s History: “Smith, Lucy Mack,” “Smith, Power (P. Macq. I 1), edited by Beyond Biography. New York: Sophronia,” “Smith, William,” Malcolm Choat and Iain Gardner. Oxford, 2017. “Translation (persons),” “Urim Bulletin of the American Society of Davis, Richard, and Thomas A. and Thummim.” In Pearl of Papyrologists 54 (2017): 298–300. Wayment. “Discussing Difficult Great Price Reference Companion, ———. “Eden, the garden of,” “Article Topics: Politics and the Church.” edited by Dennis L. Largey. Salt of Faith 8,” “Bear Record,” Religious Educator 18, no. 1 Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017. “Japeth,” “Enmity,” “Like unto (2017): 113–23. ———. “Joseph Smith’s Dog, Old Major,” thee,” “Sanctification,” “Aprons,” Devos, Y., C. Nicosia, L. Vrydaghs, BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 4 “Justification,” “Shem,” “Gospel,” L. Speleers, Jan. van der Valk, (2017): 53–67. “Power.” In Pearl of Great Price E. Marinova, B. Claes, R. M. See copublication with Mark Reference Companion, edited by Albert, I. Esteban, Terry B. Ashurst-McGee. Dennis L. Largey. Salt Lake City: Ball, M. Court-Picon, and Bennett, Richard E. “‘The Calamity Deseret Book, 2017. A. Degraeve. “An Integrated That Should Come.’” Religious ———. “P.Mich. inv. 4461kr: The Study of Dark Earth from the Educator 18, no. 3 (2018): 159–73. Earliest Fragment of the Alluvial Valley of the Senne River ———. “‘We Are a Kingdom to Didascalia CCCXVIII Patrum (Brussels, Belgium).” Quaternary Ourselves’: The Council of Nicaenorum.” Journal of International 460 (2017): 175–197. Fifty Minutes and the Mormon Theological Studies 68, no. 2 Dyer, W. Justin. “Shifting Views on Exodus West.” In The Council of (2017): 607–20. the Male-Female Relationship: Fifty: What the Records Reveal Clayton, Roberta Flake, Catherine Same-Sex Marriage and Other about Mormon History, edited H. Ellis, and David F. Boone. Consequences.” Religious by Matthew J. Grow and R. Eric Pioneer Women of Arizona, 2nd Educator 18, no. 2 (2017): 31–51. Smith, 153–66. Provo, UT: RSC; ed. Provo, UT: RSC; Salt Lake ———. Introduction to Religious Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017. City: Deseret Book, 2017. Freedom: Building Faith, Family, Blumell, Lincoln H. “An Amulet Clark, Kim B., and Barbara Morgan and Society, edited by Andrew C. Containing Acts 9:1.” Bulletin Gardner. “Insights from the Reed and Greg Wilkinson. of the American Society of CES Commissioner.” Religious Provo, UT: Office of Religious Papyrologists 54 (2017): 31–43. Educator 18 (2017): 15–27. Outreach, 2017. ———. “A Proposal for a New LXX Text Combs, Jason R. “From King Dyer, W. Justin, J. Fagan, R. among the Cave 7 Fragments.” Ahaz’s Sign to Christ Jesus: The Kaufman, J. Pearson, and Revue de Qumran 29, no. 1 (2017): ‘Fulfillment’ of Isaiah 7:14.” In N. J. Cabrera, “Self-Perceived 105–17. Prophets and Prophecies of the Coparenting of Nonresident ———. “Some Unpublished Old Testament, edited by Aaron P. Fathers: Scale Development and Coptic Inscriptions in the Schade, Brian M. Hauglid, and Validation.” Family Process (2017), Petrie Museum of Egyptian Kerry Muhlestein, 95–122. Provo, DOI: 10.1111/famp.12331.

WINTER 2018 27 See copublications with C. Porter and ———. Review of An Experiment on the 2014, edited by Donald W. Parry, B. A. McBride. Word, edited by Adam S. Miller. Stephen D. Ricks, and Andrew C. Dirkmaat, Gerrit J. “Lost Teachings Religious Educator 18, no. 2 Skinner, 21–57. Leiden: Brill, 2017. of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, (2017): 169–72. ———. Review of At the Intersection and Other Church Leaders.” In See copublications with Eric D. of Texts and Material Finds: The Council of Fifty: What the Huntsman, Daniel K Judd, Stepped Pools, Stone Vessels, and Records Reveal about Mormon Camille Fronk Olson, Hank Ritual Purity Among the Jews History, edited by Matthew J. Smith, Joseph M. Spencer, and of Roman Galilee by Stuart S. Grow and R. Eric Smith, 73–90. Greg Wilkinson. Miller (Göttingen: Vandenhoek Provo, UT: RSC; Salt Lake City: Gardner, Barbara Morgan. “Helping & Ruprecht, 2015). Review of Deseret Book, 2017. Female Students Rise to Their Biblical Literature (2017). ———. “A New Voice from the Past: Spiritual Privileges.” Religious See copublication with Jodi Magness. The Council of Fifty Minutes.” Educator 18, no. 3 (2017): 117–39. Griffin, Tyler J. When Heaven Feels BYU Religious Education Review See copublication with Kim B. Clark. Distant. Salt Lake City: Deseret (Winter 2017): 8–11. Goodman, Michael A. “The Book, 2017. Frederick, Nicholas J., and Keith J. Influence of Religious Beliefs ———, and Kenneth L. Alford. Wilson. Foreword to His Majesty in Marriage.” In L. D. Marks “Breaking the Cramming Cycle and Mission, v–viii. Provo, UT: and David C. Dollahite, Religion and Improving Memory.” The RSC; Salt Lake City: Deseret and Families, 78–110. New York: Teaching Professor 31, no. 2 Book, 2017. Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2017. (February 2017): 8. ———. “‘The Intent for Which It ———. “Beginning, in, from the,” “Book ———, and Donald B. Anderson. Was Given’: How the Book of of Remembrance,” “Mahan, “The Great Plan of Happiness: Mormon Teaches the Value Master Mahan,” “Murder,” A Christ-Centered Visual of Scriptures and Revelation.” “Secret Combinations,” “Tree Approach.” Religious Educator 18, Religious Educator 18, no. 1 of Knowledge of Good and no. 1 (2017): 13–31. (2017): 63–79. Evil,” “Tree of Life.” In Pearl of See copublications with Kenneth L. ———. “The Use of the Old Testament Great Price Reference Companion, Alford. in the New Testament Gospels.” edited by Dennis L. Largey. Salt Griffiths, Casey Paul, Susan Easton In Prophets and Prophecies of the Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017. Black, and Mary Jane Woodger. Old Testament, edited by Aaron P. ———. “Inquire Well to Marry Well.” What You Don’t Know about the Schade, Brian M. Hauglid, and Ensign, August 2017, 16–19. 100 Most Important Events in Kerry Muhlestein, 123–60. See copublication with A. Skipper. Church History. Salt Lake City: Provo, UT: RSC; Salt Lake City: Grey, Matthew J. “Book of Abraham,” Deseret Book, 2017. Deseret Book, 2017. “Jerusalem,” “Jesus Christ, Second Hedges, Andrew H. “Joseph Smith, ———. “Old Wine in New Bottles: Coming of,” “Similitude.” In Robert Foster, and Chauncey Exploring the Use of the Old Pearl of Great Price Reference and Francis Higbee.” Religious Testament in the Doctrine and Companion, edited by Dennis L. Educator 18, no. 1 (2017): 89–111. Covenants” In Prophets and Largey. Salt Lake City: Deseret Hilton, John, III. “Empirical Prophecies of the Old Testament, Book, 2017. Outcomes of Openness.” edited by Aaron P. Schade, ———. “Priestly Divination and International Review of Research Brian M. Hauglid, and Kerry Illuminating Stones in Second on Open and Distributed Learning Muhlestein, 231–64. Provo, UT: Temple Judaism.” In The 18, no. 4 (2017): i–v. RSC; Salt Lake City: Deseret Prophetic Voice at Qumran: The ———, Sunny Hendry Hafen, and Book, 2017. Leonardo Museum Conference on Jaron Hansen. “Samuel and His the Dead Sea Scrolls, 11–12 April

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WINTER 2018 29 Korth, Byran B., J. J. Wimmer, of Textbook Costs in Higher edited by Dennis Largey. Bradley R. Wilcox, T. G. Education.” Open Praxis 9, no. 1 Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Morrison, S. Harward, N. (2017): 79–91. Company, 2017. Peterson, S. Simmerman, and L. Mason, Patrick Q., and Thomas A. ———. The Old Testament: Text & Pierce. “Practices and Challenges Wayment. “Discussing Difficult Commentary in a Single Volume. of Writing Instruction in K-2 Topics: The Mountain Meadows American Fork, UT: Covenant Classrooms: A Case Study of Five Massacre.” Religious Educator 18, Communications, 2017. Primary Grade Teachers.” Early no. 2 (2017): 149–61. See copublications with Terry B. Ball, Childhood Education Journal 45 McBride, B. A., S. J. Curtiss, Jason R. Combs, Nicholas J. (2017): 237–49. K. Uchima, D. J. Laxman, Frederick, George A. Pierce, Largey, Dennis L., ed. Pearl of Great R. M. Santos, J. Weglarz-Ward, Dana M. Pike, Aaron P. Schade, Price Reference Companion. Salt W. Justin Dyer, L. M. Jeans, and and Joseph M. Spencer. Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017. J. Kern. “Father Involvement in Newell, Lloyd D., and Heidi S. Swinton. See copublications with Kenneth L. Early Intervention: Exploring “The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: Alford, Terry B. Ball, the Gap between Service Pioneers and Ambassadors Alexander L. Baugh, Lincoln H. Providers’ Perceptions and Yesterday and Today,” Pioneer 64, Blumell, Michael A. Goodman, Practices.” Journal of Early no. 2 (2017): 2–17. Matthew J. Grey, Kerry M. Intervention (2017), https://doi. ———. “May Peace Be with You . . . Hull, Frank F. Judd Jr., Jan J. org/10.1177/1053815116686118. This Day and Always.” Pioneer 64, Martin, Donald W. Parry, and Miller, Adam S., and Joseph M. no. 2 (2017): 26–30. Kerry Muhlestein. Spencer, eds. Christ and Ogletree, Mark D. No Other Success: Ludlow, Jared W. “‘After All We Can Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7. Provo, The Parenting Practices of David O. Do’ (2 Nephi 25:32).” Religious UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for McKay. Provo, UT: RSC; Salt Lake Educator 18, no. 1 (2017): 33–47. Religious Scholarship, 2017. City: Deseret Book, 2017. Madsen, Ann N., and Shon D. See copublications with Nicholas J. ———. Preparing for Your Celestial Hopkin, eds. Opening Isaiah: A Frederick, and Joseph M. Marriage. American Fork, UT: Harmony. Provo, UT: RSC; Salt Spencer. Covenant Communications, 2017. Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017. Moser, G. P., T. G. Morrison, and Olson, Camille Fronk. “A E-book. Bradley R. Wilcox. “Supporting New Commandment: The Magness, Jodi, Shua Kisilevitz, Fourth-Grade Students’ Word Transformative Power of Matthew Grey, Dennis Mizzi, Identification Using Application Redeeming Love.” In His Majesty and Karen Britt. “Huqoq–2016: Software.” Reading Psychology 38, and Mission, edited by Nicholas J. Preliminary Report.” Excavations no. 4 (2017): 349–68. Frederick and Keith J. Wilson, and Surveys in Israel (Hadashot Muhlestein, Kerry, and Michael D. 101–20. Provo, UT: RSC; Salt Lake Arkheologiyot) (2017): 129. Rhodes. “Translation of the City: Deseret Book, 2017. Martin, Jan J., “Melchizedek Book of Abraham.” In Pearl of Pierce, George A. “Understanding Priesthood,” “Nature of God.” In Great Price Reference Companion, Micah’s Lament for Judah Pearl of Great Price Reference edited by Dennis L. Largey. Salt (Micah 1:10–16) through Text, Companion, edited by Dennis L. Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017. Archaeology, and Geography.” In Largey. Salt Lake City: Deseret Muhlestein, Kerry. “Ancient Prophets and Prophecies of the Book, 2017. Egyptians and astronomy,” Old Testament, edited by Aaron P. Martin, Troy, Olga Belikov, John “Coming forth of the Book of Schade, Brian M. Hauglid, Hilton III, David Wiley, and Abraham,” “Egyptus,” “The and Kerry Muhlestein, 161–84. Lane Fischer. “Analysis of record of Joseph.” In Pearl of Provo, UT: RSC; Salt Lake City: Student and Faculty Perceptions Great Price Reference Companion, Deseret Book, 2017.

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WINTER 2018 33 new rsc publications

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In recent decades, prophets have repeatedly emphasized how a strong marriage and family are the basis of a robust society; they have counseled and warned of the many modern obstacles that can erode a healthy family life. This book draws on inspiring personal stories, research from sociology and psychology, and doctrines of the gospel of Jesus Christ to present key principles that, when applied, will help a marriage thrive. The authors use three broad content areas—the things we each need to do personally to improve our marriage (Me), the things we need to do together as a couple to strengthen our marital relation- ship (We), and ways we can more fully involve God in our marriage relationship (Thee). This three-part approach is theoretical and practi- cal and will help guide readers to a successful and happy marriage. US $27.99 new rsc publications To purchase any of the following publications, please visit www.byubookstore.com and search by book title or ISBN, or call the BYU Bookstore toll-free at 1-800-253-2578.

Abinadi Academy, a group of scholars dedi- President Spencer W. Kimball deliv- Edited by Shon D. cated to research on the Book of ered a landmark address on LDS Hopkin Mormon. Each of the members brings proselyting possibilities at a regional Under the guid- a different area of expertise to bear on representatives’ seminar in 1974. The ance of some of the Abinadi narrative. As that narra- small-in-stature, newly ordained the best think- tive is viewed from a variety of angles, prophet called for Latter-day Saints ers on the Book its richness, beauty, and profound to “lengthen our stride.” The still of Mormon, meaning come more clearly into focus. largely Intermountain West Church the Abinadi narrative springs to US $27.99 that President Kimball began to life as each chapter approaches lead at the turn of 1974 looked very Abinadi’s story and words from a Lengthening Our different from the Church in 2015, a different perspective. This volume Stride: mere four decades later. Over the is ­written for an informed, Latter- Globalization of past forty years, the geographical day Saint audience and seeks to fill the Church distribution and facial complexion of a gap in high-quality research and Edited by Reid L. the Church have spread and evolved ­writing on the Book of Mormon. It Neilson and since President Kimball’s clarion call is produced by members of Brigham Wayne D. Crosby for change in 1974. This book presents Young University’s Book of Mormon

34 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW the LDS International Society’s eastern Canada without “purse or The Council of selected conference proceedings from scrip” in the 1830s and 1840s, and the Fifty: What the 2006 to 2015. exodus of early Canadian converts Records Reveal US $39.99 who joined with the main body of about Mormon the Church in Ohio, Missouri, and History Alexander Illinois, and then trekked across the Edited by Campbell and Great Plains to Utah in the Rocky Matthew J. Grow Joseph Smith: Mountains. and R. Eric Smith Nineteenth- US $39.99 Three months before his death, Century Joseph Smith established the Council Restorationists In Their of Fifty, a confidential group that he RoseAnn Benson Footsteps: believed would protect the Latter- Two nineteenth- Mormon day Saints in their political rights and century men, Alexander Campbell Pioneers of Faith one day serve as the government of and Joseph Smith, each launched Donald G. Godfrey the kingdom of God. The Council of restoration movements in the United This is the first Fifty operated under the leadership States. They vied for seekers and public history of Joseph Smith and then Brigham dissatisfied mainstream Christians, that crosses Young. The council’s minutes had which led to conflict in northeast- through the historical eras of never been available until they were ern Ohio. Both were searching Victorian England and the Cold War published by the Joseph Smith Papers for the primordial beginning of of the post-1950s, chronicling men Project in September 2016. Christianity: Campbell looking back and women of the Joseph Godfrey US $17.99 to the Christian church described and Charles Ora Card families in their in the New Testament epistles, and journey from Liverpool, England; An Introduction Smith looking even further back to through the eastern United States, to the Book of the time of Adam and Eve as the first Nauvoo, Illinois; and Utah before Abraham Christians. they are scattered north into Canada. John Gee US $24.99 Framed within the time periods, the When the Book stories detail the pioneering attempts of Abraham was Canadian to sustain themselves as they seek first published to Mormons: freedom and livelihoods. During the world in 1842, History of the these times the Church, the country, it was published as “a translation of Church of Jesus and the LDS people faced increasing some ancient records that have fallen Christ of Latter- economical and federal pressures. into [Joseph Smith’s] hands from day Saints in This research accents the daily the catacombs of Egypt, purporting Canada struggles of individuals and their to be the writings of Abraham while Edited by Roy A. Prete and Carma T. leadership, particularly how these he was in Egypt, called ‘The Book of Prete struggles affected everyday life. These Abraham, Written by his Own Hand, This book gives a panoramic view of are personal histories within the upon Papyrus.’” The resultant record the rise and progress of the Church framework of LDS and public history. was thus connected with the papyri in Canada. It has all the elements of US $29.99 once owned by Joseph Smith, though a great saga, including that of early which papyrus of the four or five in faithful missionaries preaching in his possession was never specified. US $19.99

WINTER 2018 35 INSPIRING LEARNING AT WORK ELIZABETH’S in the RELIGIOUS STUDIES CENTER STORY

nglish major Elizabeth Smith had just started her first copyediting class at E Brigham Young University when she applied for an editorial internship. “I felt underqualified,” she remembers, “but by some miracle I got the job.” While grateful for her classroom educa- tion, Elizabeth says that her 18 months as an intern have given her many worthwhile hands-on experiences she never would have had otherwise. Currently she’s working on Richard Cowan’s upcoming book, The Los Angeles Temple: A Beacon on a Hill. To those whose contributions provide inspiring learning experiences for students, Elizabeth says, “Whenever I see one of our finished books or journals, I feel honored to have been a part of the process to get it pub - lished. I am so grateful to donors whose generosity is making my work possible.” Following graduation, Elizabeth will move to British Columbia, where her husband will work as a software engineer—and where she hopes to continue writing and editing. To make a donation to Religious Education, please contact If you would like to help a student enjoy an Garrett Rose at 801-422-3899 or email [email protected]. inspiring learning experience with the RSC, donate online at give.byu.edu/religion. 0218_BYU18-001_PMPC#P008285_8,600 Commit men t to the Covena n t Commitment to the Covenant draws on inspiring personal stories, research from sociology and psy- chology, and doctrines of the gospel of Jesus Christ to present key principles that, when applied, will help a marriage thrive. The authors use three broad content areas—the things we each need to do per- sonally to improve our marriage (Me), the things we need to do together as a couple to strengthen our marital relationship (We), and ways we can more fully involve God in our marriage relationship (Thee). This three-part approach will help guide readers to a successful and happy marriage.

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